Ticket-punch.



No. 835,485. PATNTBD Nov. e, 1906. R. WOODMAN.

TICKET PUNGH.- APPLIoATIqN FILED 23.17. 1905.

Specification of Letters llatent.

' Patented Nov. 6, 1906.

Application filed February 17, 1905. Serial No. 246,163.

To a/ZZ whom it inlay concern:

. Be it lmown that I, ROBERT WOODMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Malden, in the county'of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ticket-.

Punches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of handpunches for punching railway-tickets, restaurant and other checks, &c., composed of two jaws, each having a handle in continuation thereof and pivoted or fulcrumed to each other intermediate of the length of the jaws and handles, and of a spring to hold said jaws normally opened or separated and a set of punching-dies carried by the jaws.

This invention consists in the combination with such an implement of a set of emboss` dies, all as hereinafter fully describlel In the accom anying plate of drawings, forming a part of) this specification, Figure 1 is a side view of the jaws and their respective operating-handles severally fulcrumed on each other and shown in their normal position, all as well known, andalso a side view of the punching and embossing dies severally arranged on the jaws, all in accordance with this invention and as hereinafter appears. Figs. 2 and 3 are detail and enlarged views, Fig. 2 being a face view of the female unc -die and a face view of the male emossing- 'e, both on one and the same jaw, and Fig. 3 bein a face view of the male punching-die an a face view of the female embossing-die, bothon one and the other of the said 'aws. Fi 4 is a detail and enlarged si e view o? the jaws as shown in Fig. 1 and showing in dotted lines the relative position of the two sets of dies on the completion of the punching of the ticket, &c. Fig. 5 is a face view of a blank card in illustration of a ticket or check and as it is punched and embossed by the implement, as particularly shown in the preceding figures.

In the drawings, A and B are the two jaws, and A2 and B2 their repective handles in continuation thereof and severally fulcrumed t0- ether intermediate of their combined length y a pin C and provided with a spring E to return the jaws and handles to their normal positions after an. operation of the instrument, and all as in ticket-punches of the class on which this invention is an improvement, as hereinafter appears.

F is the male part or member, and F2 is-the female part or member, of the punching-die. The male member F is on and projects from the jaw A toward the jaw A2, and the female member F2 is on the jaw A2 and in line to receive the male member, and both are located at the outer end portion of their 'respective jaws, and by pressing the handles toward each other and against the resistance of their lspring E a ticket, &c., having previously been placed between the aws and in a way c of the jaw B, is punche out in accordance with the punchin shape of the dies, in the present instance iown as diamond-shaped. (See particularly Figs. 2, 3, and 5.)

G is the male part or member, and G2 is the female part or member, of the embossing-die.

The male member G is on and projects from the jaw B toward the jaw A, and the female member Gr2 is on the jaw A, and both are l0- cated between the punching-die before explained and the fulcrum-pin of the jaws and andles, and, further, their working or embossing faces in the normal position of the jaws are placed at such a distance apart as to come into action on the ticket, &c., in the closing movement of the jaws only after the ticket, &c., has been fully punched by the punching-dies.

It thus appears that the punching and embossing are entirely separate and independent actions of the implement and that the embossin is effected after the ticket, &c., has been ully punched.

The combination and arrangement described is obviously advantageous in many respects, notably that'it is simple, effective,

and easy in action and necessarily insures most perfect embossing for the reason that the embossing action is in no way com licated with or hampered bythe lpunchlng action.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combinationwith two jaws each having a handle in continuation of it and both hung on a fulcrum-pin intermediate of their opposite endsand a spring applied between said handles to keep said jaws normally separated or opened from each other, of a punching-die havin@r its members located on and at the outer endportions of the jaws, and. an embossing-die having its members located on and between said punching-die and said ful- A,-crumspin of the jaws and the Working faces of the members ofthe embossing-die, and in hand in the presence of two subscribing Withe normal position of the j ws, placed at a nesses.

istance apart or se arate' or action together only after thepcompletion of the ac- ROBERT WOODMAN' 5 tion of the punching-die, as described and Witnesses:

for the purposes spec1fied. ALBERT W. BROWN,

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my L. W. HOWES. 

